Word: sensationalize
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Most famously, Carlin talked about the "seven words you can never say on television," foisting the verboten few into his audience's face with the glee of a classroom cutup and the scrupulousness of a social linguist. While his brazen repeating of the "dirty" words caused a sensation (and prompted...
The 300-person auditorium in Tehran's Artists' House is so completely packed that at least 40 people are crowded around its entrance in the adjacent hallway. Inside, the heat is on - both literally and figuratively. An audience of mostly twentysomething men and women is here to see Mohsen Namjoo...
Pain in Africa The million or so people living in Kibera, the Kenyan slum, are what the WFP calls "the new face of hunger." They are victims of soaring prices, not just of food but also of more costly staples such as fuel, charcoal, cooking oil and kerosene. Residents can...
But Cloud Gate also distorts Kapoor a bit--at least in the U.S., where his complicated output is always in danger of being overwhelmed by this one singular sensation. You get a much firmer picture of him in "Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future," an indispensable show that runs through Sept...
On paper, it was a success.The Harvard women’s basketball team won its second consecutive Ivy League title in 2008—the 11th in the program’s history and third in the last four years—but ultimately, the season was incomplete. After controlling...